Recreate different geometries out of a Kinect pointcloud

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Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on January 27, 2015 at 11:52pm

your samples are "separated" thus sorting them appears "doable" (for instance using LINQ):

var sorted = ptsList.OrderBy(p => p.Z).ThenBy(p => p.Y).ThenBy(p => p.X).ToList();

if by "intricate" you mean that the 2 "domains"/clouds share "common" x,y.z coordinates ... sorting the points appears impossible unless there's some other rule/condition that we could take into consideration

Permalink Reply by Giulio Brugnaro on January 28, 2015 at 1:38am

Thanks for the reply peter! What I havein mind is more like: take a point and check its distance with all the other points, if the distance value is less than a fixed value, copy all the points with that distance from the point in one new list. Unfortunately I still having some trouble implement this, so if anyone has some idea is welcome. Thanks!

Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on January 28, 2015 at 1:50am

...some trouble implement this...

What do you mean by that? Strictly speaking that's very easy (but if I'll do it for you I'll do it using solely C#, not GH components) : anyway, post some test "isolated" pts dataset(s) and we'll see what could be done.

On the other hand, if the pts Lists "overlap" ... doing pThis.DistanceTo(pOther) ... I hardy can see how we can distinguish apples from apples.

Permalink Reply by Giulio Brugnaro on January 28, 2015 at 2:04am

I mean if I pick a point at the top of the stick is closer to another point on the top of the other stick rather than a poin on its bottom. I've attached the rhino file with the pointcloud I'm working with, thank you.

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• 150126_Kinect_Pointcloud.3dm, 215 KB

Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on January 28, 2015 at 7:42am

But this is elementary my dear Watson :

1. Points are already in "order" (no need for sort).

2. Point "sets" are not overlapping each other.

So ... case "resolved" (in fact ... far from it but let's pretend that, for the moment)

PS: Points are internalized (but GH can't memorize a thing or two in most of cases)

best, Peter

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• split_clouds_V1.gh, 25 KB

Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on January 28, 2015 at 8:38am

hmm ... what I was thinking? (blame too many cigars).

Get V2

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• split_clouds_V2.gh, 24 KB

Permalink Reply by Hannes Löschke on January 28, 2015 at 1:51pm

There's this handy little GH component called GroupPoints. It sorts points into separate lists according to a maximum distance within the group.

see attached file.

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• groupPoints.gh, 14 KB

Permalink Reply by Giulio Brugnaro on January 28, 2015 at 2:32pm

Thank Peter and Hannes, both your solutions work perfectly.

Permalink Reply by Giulio Brugnaro on February 16, 2015 at 7:33am

Hello everyone,

I've been keep working on the sorting pointcloud definition and it works pretty good until  two sticks do not overalp with  each other, when they do it recognizes a line(which is the average of the two sticks) instead of two crossing ones. I was wondering if there's a way to solve this issue. For my purpose the single stick does not need to be composed by a single polyline, could be segmented in more lines but still, if two are crossing, they need to stay separate until the point they actually cross each other. Thank you!

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• 01.PNG, 19 KB
• 150216_Sorting_PointCloud.gh, 26 KB